MEDIA
Zane Parzen
United Press International December 23, 1981 Dateline: San Diego A psychiatrist who was ordered to pay $2.5 million to a woman for having sex with her during therapy sessions Wednesday was accused in another sex-therapy lawsuit of breaking up the marriage of a San Diego couple. Dr. Robert Gardner, who recently began a residency in psychiatry at University of California at San Diego, filed the suit against Dr. Zane Parzen in Superior Court. Gardner said in the medical malpractice suit that Parzen had sex with his wife during therapy sessions from 1977 to 1980. He said his wife went to [...]
Suzanne King, Massachusetts Psychiatrist, impregnated by patient – license suspended – “immediate and serious threat to the public health”
The Boston Globe Sex scandal costs license of Brookline psychiatrist By Richard Saltus August 12, 1994 In an unusual disciplinary action, the state Board of Registration in Medicine has summarily suspended the license of a Brookline psychiatrist accused of having sex with a former patient by whom she said she became pregnant, officials said yesterday. The medical board's action Wednesday evening against Dr. Suzanne K. King is extraordinary because it shortcuts the normal legal requirement that a physician not be barred from practice without a hearing. Summary suspension is permissible, however, when the board asserts that a physician's continued practice [...]
The Boston Globe May 2, 2005, Monday THIRD EDITION PASSENGER WITH WEAPON ARRESTED AT AIRPORT SECTION: METRO/REGION; Pg. B2 LENGTH: 163 words A man from West Virginia was arrested over the weekend after he tried to walk through security at Logan Airport with a loaded gun packed in one of his carry-on bags, police said yesterday. Deleno H. Webb III, 65, a psychiatrist from Huntington, W. Va., was on his way to catch a Delta flight home Saturday afternoon when he put his backpack through an X-ray machine in Terminal A, police said. The machine's operator saw the outline of [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire February 3, 2008 Sunday 3:49 PM GMT Former psychiatrist gets jail term for illegal prescriptions SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL LENGTH: 110 words DATELINE: STROUDSBURG Pa. A former psychiatrist from East Stroudsburg is sentenced to six to 18 months in county jail. Prosecutors say Harold Pascal illegally prescribed potentially addictive drugs in an overcrowded, poorly run office. Pascal was charged in 2006. He later surrendered his medical license and pleaded no contest to two counts of illegal medical prescriptions and one count of Medicaid fraud. At Friday's sentencing in Monroe County Court, former co-workers [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire September 29, 1999, Wednesday, BC cycle Woman's family files wrongful-death suit against Kevorkian associate SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 355 words DATELINE: RIO RANCHO, N.M. The sister of a woman who was allegedly given a drug overdose has filed a wrongful-death suit against the retired psychiatrist accused of killing her. Prosecutors allege Georges Reding, 74, of Galesburg, Mich., administered a lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital to Donna Brennan, 54, in August 1998. A Sandoval County grand jury indicted Reding Aug. 19 on charges of first-degree murder, practicing medicine without a license, trafficking [...]
Alice Dean
The Associated Press Psychiatrist Sentenced to India for Medicaid Fraud August 13, 1980 Wisconsin's attorney general is unhappy with a Milwaukee judge's decision to send suburban psychiatrist Alice Dean to India to serve an alternative sentence for Medicaid fraud. Ms. Dean, convicted of obtaining $13,285 in fraudulent payments, has been directed to spend three years in southern India treating needy children. The sentence also requires that she repay the $13,285 within 90 days. The maximum sentence would have been 18 years in prison plus fines of up to $11,000. Saying the sentence may be the "first of its kind in [...]
Los Angeles Times April 18, 2000, Tuesday, Orange County Edition STATE BOARD DISCIPLINES 2 O.C. DOCTORS; A SANTA ANA PSYCHIATRIST LOSES HIS LICENSE FOR HAVING SEX WITH A PATIENT, AND A LAGUNA BEACH SURGEON IS PUNISHED FOR NEGLIGENCE. BYLINE: PETER M. WARREN, TIMES STAFF WRITER SECTION: Metro; Part B; Page 3; Metro Desk LENGTH: 713 words The Medical Board of California has severely disciplined two Orange County doctors, one for having sex with patients and the other for botching liposuction surgery and deceiving patients. Jeffrey Moran, a Santa Ana psychiatrist, had his license revoked by the board, which found he [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire November 4, 1999, Thursday, AM cycle Psychiatrist suspended for sexual misconduct with patient SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 239 words DATELINE: NASHUA, N.H. A psychiatrist who admitted to sexual misconduct with a female patient has been suspended from practicing for a year. Dr. Mark Strecker admitted repeated "inappropriate touching or physical contact" with the woman, according to the ruling by the state Board of Medicine. The board credited Strecker with owning up to his conduct. Strecker, who formerly practiced in Manchester and at Charter Brookside Hospital in Nashua, is undergoing counseling himself, according [...]
Samuel Albert
Los Angeles Times November 11, 1987, Wednesday, Orange County Edition PSYCHIATRIST FACING ALLEGATIONS, INCLUDING PATIENT SEXUAL AFFAIR BYLINE: By JIM CARLTON, Times Staff Writer SECTION: Metro; Part 2; Page 3; Column 5; Metro Desk LENGTH: 530 words A state medical board has accused a Fountain Valley psychiatrist of negligence, incompetence and unethical conduct for allegedly entering into a months-long sexual affair with a suicidal patient. Dr. Samuel H. Albert, 50, faces revocation or suspension of his medical license if the accusation by the California Board of Medical Quality Assurance is upheld. The board will set a hearing date for sometime [...]
Hugh Brown
The Miami Herald October 3, 1987 Saturday BRWRD EDITION PRISON DOCTOR GUILTY OF DRUG POSSESSION BYLINE: JAMES F. McCARTY Herald Staff Writer SECTION: BRWD N; BR; Pg. 3 LENGTH: 299 words A Broward prison psychiatrist suspected of a sex-for-favors scheme pleaded guilty Friday to possession of marijuana. In a soft, high-pitched voice, Dr. Hugh Brown admitted to the crime, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison. The 54-year-old Pembroke Pines resident was sentenced to four years probation as part of a plea agreement. Assistant state attorney Martin Murphy said Brown planned to smuggle a 5-ounce bag [...]
Richard Seely
The Miami Herald May 14, 1988 Saturday STATE EDITION PATIENTS LEFT ADDICTED ANGRY AT PSYCHIATRIST BYLINE: TRACEY EATON Herald Staff Writer SECTION: GLF; D; Pg. 1 LENGTH: 981 words Dr. Richard Seely, a Princeton graduate with boyish good looks and blue eyes, seemed to have the world in his hands when he started a psychiatry practice in Naples three years ago. Now he faces possible criminal charges. State officials also have suspended his medical license and his patients are angry. John Franck Jr., 45, a Naples Park security guard, visited Seely in July 1985 after a neurologist referred him for [...]
William John Johns
Press Journal (Vero Beach, Florida) October 6, 2007 Saturday Indian River County Edition 'Mentally ill' Vero psychiatrist has license suspended BYLINE: JAMES KIRLEYjim.kirley@scripps.com SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A1 LENGTH: 490 words VERO BEACH -- The Florida Department of Health issued an emergency suspension of a Vero Beach psychiatrist's medical license this week after learning the doctor pleaded "not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect" to charges he tried to kidnap a 2-year-old from his mother in New York City last year. The doctor later told a court he thought the mother was from outer space. Dr. William John [...]
The Boston Globe January 23, 1993, Saturday, City Edition Tufts doctor was tenured while probe under way BYLINE: By Alison Bass, Globe Staff SECTION: METRO/REGION; Pg. 1 LENGTH: 1076 words The Tufts University School of Medicine awarded tenure and a department chairmanship to Dr. Richard I. Shader after a 1991 sexual harassment complaint against him was settled for $ 90,000 and while the state medical board was investigating a separate charge that he had sexually exploited a female patient, according to a source familiar with the case. The state Board of Registration in Medicine last month put Shader on what [...]
Jose Rodriguez Lombillo
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) October 11, 1987, Sunday, City Edition Correction Appended Doctor loses license after accusations of 'scandalous' sex BYLINE: CAROL GENTRY SECTION: METRO AND STATE; Pg. 1B LENGTH: 785 words DATELINE: TAMPA -- TAMPA - A Naples psychiatrist accused of performing sex acts on unconscious women and videotaping the activities has lost his license to practice medicine. The Florida Board of Medicine ruled Saturday to revoke the license of Dr. Jose Rodriguez Lombillo, 49, after privately reviewing more than six hours of the videotapes. Several women said Lombillo doctored their after-dinner drinks with sedatives and, when confronted later, [...]
The Dallas Morning News (Texas) Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News October 11, 2009 Sunday Physician misconduct often tolerated by state medical board, analysis finds BYLINE: Brooks Egerton, The Dallas Morning News SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL NEWS LENGTH: 2306 words Oct. 11--Seven years ago, after a scathing series of stories in The Dallas Morning News, the Texas Medical Board promised to crack down on bad doctors. Patient endangerment would be dealt with severely. And sexual misconduct, one official said, would become "intolerable." It hasn't turned out that way. After its last meeting, in late August, the board announced decisions on four [...]
Detroit Free Press (Michigan) October 3, 2009 Saturday Local news in brief BYLINE: COMPILED FROM REPORTS BY MEGHA SATYANARAYANA, CHASTITY PRATT DAWSEY, PEGGY WALSH-SARNECKI, JOE ROSSITER AND NIRAJ WARIKOO WEST BLOOMFIELD: Doctor in fraud case loses license A West Bloomfield psychiatrist who was sentenced in August to 10 months in prison for falsely diagnosing new immigrants seeking exemption from naturalization rules has lost his medical license, the Michigan Department of Community Health said Friday. Dr. Chilakamarri Ramesh, 55, was convicted in federal court in Detroit of conspiracy to commit naturalization fraud, and will have to pay more than $30,000 in [...]
The Monroe Evening News (Michigan) July 13, 2012 Friday Newport resident files civil suit against psychiatrist BYLINE: Danielle Portteus, DPORTTEUS@MONROENEWS.COM SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 1A LENGTH: 405 words Holly Beth Hord of Newport has filed a civil suit against a Monroe psychiatrist who is accused of sexually assaulting his patients. The civil suit was filed Tuesday in Wayne County Circuit Court seeking $10 million. The 26-year-old mother of two is being represented by Novi attorney Gregory J. Rohl, who was unavailable for comment because he was out of town. According to the complaint, Dr. Abduallhi A. Mohamed engaged in sexual intercourse [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire January 8, 2005, Saturday, BC cycle Psychiatrist in botched Texas drowning case working on similar Colorado case SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 363 words DATELINE: LAMAR, Colo. A psychiatrist who gave false testimony in the botched conviction of a Houston woman accused of drowning her children has been working with Colorado prosecutors on a similar case. A Texas appeals court on Thursday overturned the murder convictions of Andrea Yates in the 2001 drownings of her children, citing the testimony of Park Dietz. Dietz testified in that trial about an episode of the television [...]
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin) January 12, 2011 Wednesday Early Edition Psychiatrist facing firing hearing retires | PATIENTS IN PERIL | A JOURNAL SENTINEL WATCHDOG UPDATE County suspended Strelnick after pregnancy at Mental Heath Complex BYLINE: STEVE SCHULTZE and MEG KISSINGER, sschultze@journalsentinel.com Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI) SECTION: A News LENGTH: 935 words Controversial psychiatrist Karl Strelnick sidestepped a hearing Tuesday on whether he should be fired from the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex by retiring from the job he's held since 1991. Strelnick was hired by the county despite having admitted having sex with two of his patients [...]
Eugene Redmond, former psychiatry professor at the Yale School of Medicine, sexually harassed a student
Yale Daily News I SAW WHAT I SAW: On this island, a Yale professor sexually harassed a Yale student. Did the University do enough? By Jever Mariwala, Alice Park, & Marisa Peryer March 5, 2019 Psychiatrist Eugene Redmond A Yale student endured serial sexual harassment during a summer internship. The perpetrator — a School of Medicine professor — retired quietly. Five months later, the University announced an investigation — but did Yale do enough? Editor’s Note: This article contains sexually graphic descriptions of misconduct. The student who experienced the misconduct requested the pseudonym Blair to protect their privacy. On [...]
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) May 15, 2010 Saturday METRO EDITION Psychiatrist disciplined for patient relationship; Dr. Elizabeth Delesante admitted that she crossed the line with a patient. BYLINE: MAURA LERNER; STAFF WRITER, STAR TRIBUNE (Mpls.-St. Paul) SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 4B LENGTH: 249 words A psychiatrist in Sartell, Minn., has been reprimanded by the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice for unprofessional and unethical conduct by developing a personal relationship with a patient. Dr. Elizabeth Delesante, 51, admitted that she had "failed to maintain professional boundaries" with the individual, who was her patient for nearly 10 years, according to a disciplinary action [...]